Empower your Day in Just Seconds
Grantley Morris
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If you were treating the open wounds of accident victims you would realize that the most gentle, well-meaning touch could send patients reeling. You would not be offended if someone you were seeking to help lashed out in pain with almost involuntary action. You would half expect it. But imagine the confusion if the wounds were invisible and the person looked uninjured. Consider the further complication if in that persons experience everyone who had tried to help (and how does he know you will be any different?) had in their ignorance done little but inflict pain. Thats the norm for someone who is hurting inside. Emotionally wounded people cannot help but be highly sensitive. Words hit them like whips. It is vital that they be treated verbally with the careful tenderness you would use if you were dressing gaping physical wounds. Once we understand the seriousness of emotional wounds, its surprisingly easy to employ the Christlike graces of turning the other cheek and using the soft answer that turns away wrath. When we realize an outburst is just the pain talking, we no longer take it to heart. Only a fool takes personally the actions of someone drunk with pain. Taken from How to comfort the hurting Touch hearts! May be freely copied. Just include this notice: © Grantley Morris, www.net-burst.com
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